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...introduction to Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton '76, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recalls the iron-gray Auntie Em of The Wizard of Oz, the sexless and colorless lady of the Kansas plains who has come to represent the withered frontier woman in the minds of childhood readers. The transformation of Dorothy's maternal surrogate, one of the more familiar passages of the beloved novel, goes like this...
...unveiled a female frontier population which seemed to strengthen and thrive and gain color from the prairie sun and wind. These women, who trailed west after their husbands, unwillingly at first, soon burst out in lively appreciation of and identification with the frontier landscape. Carrie Stearns Smith, one pioneer woman, recollects the liberating power of the prairie as it accosted her constricted New England sensibility...
Ruben F. Mettler, 57. As a young aeronautical engineer working for Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. in the 1950s, Mettler supervised the development of Pioneer I, the first satellite launched by a private firm. He is now chairman of TRW, the aerospace and automotive giant that resulted when Ramo-Wooldridge merged with Thompson Products. Mettler heads the Roundtable's employment task force...
Starting with a borrowed single-engine Fairchild FC2, Trippe built an airborne empire that was the acknowledged flagship of U.S. aviation for more than three decades. He also sent masses of air travelers around the world by inaugurating tourist-class fares in 1947. Last week this pioneer of world aviation died of a stroke...
DIED. Juan Trippe, 81, aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways, which he guided for 41 years until his retirement in 1968; after a stroke; in New York City, (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS...